Yokohama JALT:

Exploring The Value Of Student Self-transcription

Date: Saturday, July 19th, 2014
Time: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Speaker: Simon Cooke and Colin Skeates

Description:
Students transcribing their own spoken output (self-transcription) is a teaching tools that has been sparingly investigated in recent years. With the advancement of technology, however, self-transcription has become easier to administer. In this workshop, Simon Cooke and Colin Skeates will share research into their use of self-transcription in the classroom. In addition, attendees will have a chance to try self-transcription and participate in a discussion on the advantages and disadvantages of using self-transcription in their own teaching context. As cell phones will be used during the workshop, please ensure that your phone has recently been charged before you attend.

ELT means English Language Teaching. The ELT Calendar contains information about conferences, conventions, workshops, presentations and other events of professional interest to teachers of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) in Japan, and the research communities of SLA (Second Language Acquisition), TESOL (Teaching English as a Second or Other Language), TEFL (Teaching English as a Foriegn Language) and others relevant to language learning and teaching English in Japan.